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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Richardson, Edmund (1982-....)
Titre(s) : Alexandria [Texte imprimé] : the quest for the lost city / Edmund Richardson
Publication : London (GB) : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-328 p., [16] p. de pl.) : ill. en coul. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibiogr. p. 311-318. Index
For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of
East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest
person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary working-class boy from London turned
deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar. On the way
into one of history's most extraordinary stories, Masson would take tea with kings,
travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things
no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since. He would spy for the
East India Company and be suspected of spying for Russia at the same time, for this
was the era of the Great Game, when imperial powers confronted each other in these
staggeringly beautiful lands. Masson discovered tens of thousands of pieces of Afghan
history, including the 2,000-year-old Bimaran golden casket, which has upon it the
earliest known face of the Buddha. He would be offered his own kingdom; he would change
the world, and the world would destroy him. This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century
India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world
of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both
personal and military, and boundless hope. At the edge of empire, amid the deserts
and the mountains, it is the story of an obsession passed down the centuries.
Sujet(s) : Masson, Charles (1800-1853)
Fouilles archéologiques -- Afghanistan -- 19e siècle
Antiquités -- Afghanistan
Villes disparues, en ruine, etc. -- Afghanistan -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
939.6 (23e éd.) = Histoire antique - Asie centrale - Des origines jusque vers 0640
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781526603814 (erroné). - ISBN 1526603810 (erroné). - ISBN 9781526603784 (rel.).
- ISBN 1526603780 (erroné). - ISBN 9781526603791 (erroné) (ePub ebook). - ISBN 9781526644374
(erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468828915
Notice n° :
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